Anthony Kalil & Vanessa Isiguen

Praised by the New York Times as ‘radiant’, American soprano Vanessa Isiguen is pleased to return to the Seasons Performance Hall in Yakima. Ms. Isiguen recently joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover the dual role of Kitty/ Vanessa in the world premiere of THE HOURS by composer Kevin Puts, conducted by Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. She began the season as a soloist with the Oregon Symphony and made her Lyric Opera debut in Dublin, Ireland in the title role of MADAMA BUTTERFLY. She will be the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Portland Youth Philharmonic this May, and

looks forward to singing the role of Almera in the chamber opera DARK SISTERS by Nico Muhly this fall with Orpheus Opera PDX.

Previous engagements include Cio-Cio-San in MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Florida Grand Opera, and Opera Idaho, Mimì in LA BOHEME for New Orleans Opera, Portland Opera, Sarasota Opera and Eugene Opera, and Beatrice Russo in the New York City premiere of Daniel Catan’s IL POSTINO. Other Concert engagements include her debut with Chamber Music Northwest as a soprano soloist in Mozart’s Notturni, returning soloist for the Portland Opera Gala Maestro George Manahan.

In addition to Italian verismo repertoire, Ms. Isiguen has a great passion for new music and was featured by The New York Times in a video clip depicting her singing the starring role of Roberta Alden in AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Tobias Picker with Glimmerglass Opera Festival. She sang the role of Spirit in the Metropolitan Opera workshop of SORROWS OF FREDERICK and the world premiere of TRES MINUTOS by N. Benavides as Nila with the Seattle Symphony/ Music of Remembrance on a tour of performances in

Seattle and San Francisco. She looks forward to reprising the role of Nila in TRES MINUTOS while making her San Diego Symphony Debut in January of 2024.

Praised by the New York Times as an “excellent tenor” with a voice that has “ping and richness,” American tenor Anthony Kalil most recently made his Oregon Symphony debut under the baton of

Maestro David Danzmayr at Portland’s beloved waterfront concert.

Previously, Mr. Kalil made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Young Man in Die Frau ohne Schatten

conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and the 1st Armed Man in The Magic Flute. Mr. Kalil also covered the role of Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth with the Metropolitan Opera. Mr. Kalil has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Arizona Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and many others.

Mr. Kalil made his role debut as Nadir in The Pearl Fishers with Seattle Opera and has also performed the role of Alfredo in La Traviata with Opera on the Avalon in St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada. He also

made his Alice Tully Hall debut in a gala concert with the I Sing Beijing Program, was the tenor soloist for Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, sang the role of Lensky in Eugene Onegin with Vashon Opera, and participated in the I Sing Beijing Program in Beijing, China. Further career highlights include Rodolfo in La Bohème, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly,

the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Canio in Pagliacci, and Gabriel Von Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus.
Mr. Kalil is the recipient of an Encouragement Award from the George London Foundation, a Sara Tucker

Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation and Richard Tucker Career Grant, Second Prize in the Gerda

Lissner Competition, and Second Prize from the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation. Mr. Kalil was awarded a prize as a Semi-Finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and is a graduate of the prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera.